HP ALM/QC Integration with TFS

The integration of HP ALM/QC and TFS helps in bringing the product development and Quality Assurance (QA) team on the same page. As both the teams have visibility into each other’s task and complete context of customer expectations, the quality of product is better and the delivery cycle is shorter.Download PDF

HP ALM/QC TFS Integration Overview

In an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) ecosystem, the choice of systems and the collaboration between the cross-functional teams play a great role. While the choice of systems impacts the productivity of a team, the cross-functional collaboration helps the teams get complete context of the business requirements.

Best-of-breed systems such as HP ALM/QC and TFS bring rich functionalities to the ecosystem. Integration of HP ALM/QC with
TFS ensures that the development and QA teams are on the same page when it comes to delivery timelines and have complete visibility into each other’s tasks.

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How HPQC – TFS integration is beneficial for an enterprise

Real-time updates on the status of a story, its estimated time of delivery, and any risks that might delay the impending release

Complete context of the customer requirement and visibility into codes written by the development team & test cases
written by QA team

Coordinate on the delivery timelines seamlessly with concurrent updates on changes

With HP ALM/QC + TFS integration, enterprises can:

How OpsHub Integration Manager integrates HP ALM/QC and TFS

OpsHub Integration Manager integrates HP ALM/QC and TFS bi-directionally. It ensures that all historical and current data is available to each user, in that user’s preferred system, with full context, in real-time. All ‘user stories’ from TFS automatically synchronize to HP ALM/QC. The completion of the story and the status of test results in HP ALM/QC against these user stories automatically synchronizes to TFS.

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Use Case: HP ALM/QC Integration with TFS

Problem statement: The communication between the development team and quality control team happens manually. For example, status of a requirement or the results of a test case are to be communicated either through email or phone.

Solution: When HP ALM/QC and TFS are bi-directionally integrated, both the teams will be have visibility into each other’s task from their own systems.

The Product Manager creates a ‘requirement’ in TFS, and attaches a screenshot that includes communication details from the customer.

The development team receives the ‘requirements’ and starts work on it.

The ‘requirement’ also syncs to HP ALM/QC.

The QA team creates ‘test cases’ against the ‘requirement’ and link the ‘test cases’ to the ‘requirement’.

Once the development team completes work on the ‘requirement’, it changes the status of ‘requirements’ in TFS to ‘closed’.

The QA team runs the ‘test case’ against the closed ‘requirement’. If the ‘test cases’ passes, the QA team changes the status of ‘requirements’ in HP ALM/QC to complete, which automatically updates the status of ‘requirements’ in TFS. If the ‘test cases’ fails, the QA team analyzes the issue and logs a ‘defect’ in HP ALM/QC, which reopens the status of ‘requirements’ in TFS.

Benefits of integration for HP ALM/QC and TFS users

HP ALM/QC users

Real-time updates on the story and associated changes/enhancements

Access to the business requirements, development status, and associated updates from within HP ALM/QC

No manual efforts needed to keep backend teams updated on the QA cycle and reports

TFS users

No duplication of efforts for entering the same data in multiple systems